Improvement in paper dishes and buckets



IAJUNN. Paper Dish and Bucket.

No. 222,879. Patent ed Dec, 23,1879;

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GERTRUDE A. DUNN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PA PER DISHES AND BUCKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222.879.v dated December -33, 1879; application filed December To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GERTRUDE A. DUNN, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Paper Dishes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, illustrating the improvement.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved paper bucket or dish, constructed from one piece, that is adapted for the uni versal purpose of packing and carrying all kinds of plastic and liquidcompounds, such as are usually sold from bulk by grocers and delivered in jugs, cans, sacks, and vessels of various kinds.

Heretofore paper dishes have been made from a rectangular sheet by folding the corners together so that two uniform triangularshaped corner-pieces were doubled flat upon each other, and then jointly folded upon one of the side pieces of the vessel, and fastened thereto to form a closed corner; and a complete closed side was formed by turning the folding parts toward each other from opposite corners of the vessel, so as to overlap and cross each other at their free extremities and ened together by turning one of the free pointed ends inward over the top edge of the side, and the other points outward over the same top edge, but not at the same place. Two ends er sides of a box or dish thus formed by folding the corners toward each other from opposite directions had each four triangularshaped corner-pieces folded thereon and a surplus of material, while the other two sides remained single, without any re-enforcement whatever, and consequently would bend and allow the dish to partly collapse and become distorted, unsightly, and insecure in use.

To overcome this objection and serious defeet in paper vessels, I make the four sides of my dish uniform and in such a manner that each side is re-enforced and stiffened by four triangular shaped pieces that overlap each other at the top edge, where they can all be united and kept in place by a clasp, the end five thicknesses or layers of the single sheet and bind them all firmly together, as hereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 of my drawings is a diagram showing the form of the sheet before it is folded, and indicates the forms of the parts that are to be folded, and the positions that they will occupy relative to each other and the sides when they are doubled together, as contemplated to produce a vessel having four uniformly rigid or stidened sides. Fig. 2 is aper spective view of my finished vessel, from which partsoftwocornerpiecesareremoved. Jointly considered, these figures clearly illustrate the construction and utility of my invention.

a in Fig. 1 represents a square in the center of the sheet, outlined by means of creases, that is designed to form the bottom of the vessel; and b b b b, the four uniform side pieces that extend from the central base and bottom, a; The size of the sheet can vary, as desired, to produce different sizes of buckets or dishes, and the size of the central base and bottom may be enlarged or diminishedpso as to produce shallow or deep vessels from blank sheets of the same size. I preferably use strong Manila paper that has sizing in it to prevent it from absorbing any liquid or allowing any liquid contents from passing through the vessel; but various kinds and qualities of material can be used to produce a vessel from a square blank by my manner of doubling the corners to re-enforce, strengthen, and stiffen each one of the four sides.

0 c are creases diverging from the corners of the base a outward. d d are creases extending from the outer corners of the same central base, a, to the outer corners of the complete blank, and in a central line relative to the two creases c 0. Two uniform corner-pieces, l and 2, are thus outlined, and when their top or inner surfaces arebrought flat together they can be readily and jointly folded against the outside surface of one of the contiguous sides I), to overlap and re-enforce the same, and to bring the stiff edge formed by doubling them along the line 01 dinto a diagonal position, as indicated by the broken lines 01. The folding corner-pieces 1 and 2 of each corner can thus be turned in the same direction to cover a corresponding triangular-shaped section, 3,

and each one of the four sides I) made threefold in thickness across the greater portion of its top.

ff audit are creases crossing each other at the central creases, d (I, and outer free endsof the mating corner-pieces 12, to outline two minor triangular-shaped sections, 4 5,'formed at the extreme corners of the complete blank, to be jointly doubled over'the top edges of the sides I), as shown, for the purpose of making a portion of the top of each side fivefold, to thereby stiffen the sides, and to form a bulk of material adapted to receive and retain a rivet, the end of a bail, or a metal clasp, and to secure all the partsfirmly together in such a manner that the four sides of the complete vessel will be uniformly stayed to mutually support each other, and to thereby prevent bulging, and to maintain the angular and sym metrical shape of the vessel.

The sharp point of the doubled sections 4 5, thus produced from a rectangular blank, to extend downward from the top edge of each of the four sides of the complete vessel, may be cut off in cutting the blank, before folding the blank, or after the vessel is finished.

I claim-- 1. A blank having acentral rectangular base or bottom, a, outlined by four intersecting lines Qaasw sides I), the triangular-shaped corner-sections 1 2 and 4 5, folded, arranged, and combined substantially as shown and described, to stiffen and strengthen each side of the complete vessel.

3. The complete vessel, made from a single sheet or blank and having a central base or bottom, a, four uniform sides, I), and the mating sections 1 2 and 4 5 at each corner, consisting of doubled and folded sections 1 2 and 4 5, folded over and fastened to the sides by suitable means, substantially as shown and described, for the purposes specified.

GERTRUDE A. DUNN.

NVi tn esses:

G. L. CHAPIN, A. G. MOREY. 

